finally had time (although not to complete another build) to run the test again, the procedure I did was: Tools->Macros->Organize macros->basic select Main and click on the Edit button I've attached the back-trace of the crash René <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Caolán McNamara <<a href="mailto:caolanm@redhat.com">caolanm@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 00:27 +0200, René Kjellerup wrote: > > I'm having troubles with the macro editor, when trying to open it > it crashes soffice.bin </div>What dialog exactly, tools->macros->organize macros->basic ? FWIW that's working here. Might get a more useful backtrace with... gdb /mnt/newdisk/loffice/install/program/soffice.bin (gdb) run -writer get it to crash, and then type "bt", i.e. (gdb) bt C. </blockquote></div> -- -- as life grows older, I gain experience.